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I am epically stubborn, but, how has the rest of the "first world" delivered better outcomes, at lower cost, than the US?
They never let it build up.
This is an example of path dependence. It's very possible to limit your health care sector to half the size of that of the U.S. Many countries have done it. But once you let your health care sector build to the size of that of the U.S., it becomes nearly impossible to undo that. There are just too many stakeholders that would lose too much for you to get sufficient political cover to claw it back.
And this is what I refer too when I say, "You can't get there from here." We need to go back to when I was 16, when my father, influenced by the AMA, was bashing socialized medicine, and start anew.
